Illegible writing on verso.

Sharp’s first depiction of a man named White Weasel was of a Pueblo man in an exhibition at the University Club in Cincinnati in 1912.  White Weasel was referred to as a Cheyenne late in Sharp’s career when this portrait and a painting he titled Buffalo Horn for the Paleface (#388) were exhibited in Tulsa in 1947 at the Gilcrease Foundation.  It appears that Sharp may have misremembered.

Stylistically, this painting was surely completed around 1920. One of nearly a half dozen paintings from this period that pictured White Weasel was titled White Weasel – Pueblo and appeared at the Hotel Gibson galleries in 1919. This is undoubtedly that canvas. That same year Sharp exhibited three other White Weasel paintings at the Hotel Gibson galleries, including Buffalo Horn for the Paleface (#388).